At least a dozen children diagnosed as being on the spectrum were conceived with sperm from the same donor, spurring a lawsuit. The phenomenon is believed to be unprecedented and has attracted the attention of some of the world’s foremost experts in the genetics of autism.

Russian authorities hope to prove that, among Joseph Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh, Soviet soldiers taken captive and shot by the Finnish army during World War II are also buried. That theory enrages some who say it looks like an attempt to blur the memory of Stalin’s purges.